Who would do such a thing? And why? The poor little fella is just doing it's job...
Because it does its job terribly. It provides inaccurate information when it would be faster for any one of us to just do a search for ourselves. And when it can’t figure out a source, it still spams the post, instead of just staying out of it. There has been widespread opposition to the bot existing at all, from day one, and the mods seem to have ignored all of us who say the bot sucks and only gets in the way.
It also has links to ground.news baked into it, despite that site being pretty useless from what I can tell. I get strong sponsorship vibes, and we don’t need that crap on Lemmy.
I didn’t like the bots on Reddit, and I don’t like the bots on Lemmy.
I'm also running under the asumption someones paying for it to be there. Makes no sense otherwise. Literally the start of enshitification. Id urge people to drop instnces that host it as their homes and find a reasonable home instance.
Because it's annoying to think there's a comment on a thread, open it, and see that it was only a bot.
It also screws with post sorting on the front page since Lemmy still doesn't have a high enough rate of new posts/comments.
people who disagree with its particular brand of propaganda or its forced inclusion, most likely
I rarely see it, but MBFC is an atrocious website that defines bias by distance from the center. It's just nonsense.
I'll down vote it when it says "I have nothing to add" because it could just not say anything.
If there's one moderate critique, it doesn't say much when it comes to political bias ratings, which are often U.Sian centric
Like here are the 3 axes of politics to me
Economic Policy (Base)
{Domestic} Culture and Government Structure Policy (Superstructure)
Foreign Policy (Western or Eastern Alignment
But I can't understand anything when it merely comes to left and right, like in what way are they leftist or rightist, are they economically socialist/capitalist and anti-western/pro-western in foreign policy in such way too, or merely when it comes to culture and gov't policy?
